Planisphere (poetry collection) explained

Planisphere
Author:John Ashbery
Country:United States
Language:English
Publisher:HarperCollins
Pub Date:2009
Pages:160
Isbn:9780061915215

Planisphere is a 2009 poetry collection by the American writer John Ashbery. It consists of 99 alphabetically sequenced poems.

Reception

The book was reviewed in Publishers Weekly, where the critic wrote that Ashbery's "wit is still sharp, the poems still rife with clever juxtapositions and colliding voices", and that "as in his last several books, there's nothing entirely new, but ... the poems are almost always satisfying and strange".[1]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Staff writer. 2009-11-16. Fiction Review: Planisphere by John Ashbery. Publishers Weekly. 2012-04-29.